"Alexandra Tyng is a Realist painter whose work combines traditional methods with a contemporary viewpoint. Alex was born in Rome, Italy. The father of Alexandra was famed architect Louis Isadore Kahn (1901-1974) and the mother was Anne Griswold Tyng (1920-2011) an architect and professor. Primarily self-taught, Alex chose an academic education over art school. She learned traditional oil painting techniques by examining the work of the old masters, reading about the methods and materials of other artists, and watching artists paint. Alex’s portraits incorporate descriptive backgrounds and a uniquely figurative sensibility. Her non-commissioned figurative work focuses on people in the process of living and interacting in their own environments, rather than in formal poses. In other paintings the figures become distant focal points while the setting predominates. Alex’s landscapes range from intimate views of particular places to mountaintop panoramas to large-scale aerial views of the glacially carved land formations of coastal Maine. (http://www.tuttartpitturasculturapoesiamusica.com/2016/04/Alexandra-Tyng.html) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-seed/alexandra-tyng-ways-and-i_b_7497928.html undefined

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